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HICKS JNR UNDER FIRE AFTER ABUSIVE E-MAIL
Posted 11/01/10 08:14EmailPrintSave
Liverpool director Tom Hicks Jnr is under mounting pressure to resign after sending an abusive e-mail to a supporter.
Fan Stephen Horner sent an e-mail to the club asking about reports concerning the finances at Anfield, and received two rather pithy replies.
According to reports in several newspapers, the first simply read: 'Idiot'.
Seemingly wishing to crank things up a notch, the second said: 'Blow me, f**kface. Go to hell, I'm sick of you.'
Hicks Jnr - son of co-owner Tom Hicks Snr - has since apologised for the e-mails (confirming, as The Times comments, that it was genuinely him that sent the messages).
"I apologise for losing my temper and using bad language with you. It was a kneejerk reaction," said Hicks.
However, that has done little to calm Liverpool fans groups, particularly because of the lack of official comment from the club.
The Times quotes James McKenna, a spokesman for the 'Spirit of Shankly' group, as saying: "It is a great surprise and an even greater disappointment that Liverpool Football Club have thus far failed to make any comment on what we feel is a very serious matter.
"Is this what the club has come to, that a board member can speak in such derogatory terms to a supporter but can go without censure or any public criticism? The conspiracy of silence which has followed this unsavoury incident is totally unbecoming of a club which has always prided itself on its relationship with the fans.
"Are we to presume that the Liverpool hierarchy condones the comments made by Tom Hicks Jr or is it simply a case that the deeply flawed regime of Hicks and Gillett has left the entire club in a state of paralysis?
"Surely the very least the Liverpool supporters deserve is an open and honest explanation from the club, an indication on their feelings about the objectionable behaviour of such a senior member of the board and a commitment that such an incident will not happen again."
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